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Reaper knew what the world was clamoring for: another OSR themed D&D clone. I don't know who thought this would be a good idea in 2023, but it's off to a surprisingly strong start.
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Echophonic posted:Taking layout advice from the fuckin' Book of the SubGenius, what the hell. That Italian Guy posted:I had originally backed this at a physical tier, but I decided to cancel before the end of the campaign. I was afraid it was going to be some kind of novelty item on my shelf more than anything else... I'm going to eat my words. The actual mechanics of the game are laid out in a sensible fashion and won't melt your eyes. It looks... Good? Or at least a fun time with your friends?
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EverettLO posted:Reaper knew what the world was clamoring for: another OSR themed D&D clone. I don't know who thought this would be a good idea in 2023, but it's off to a surprisingly strong start. How many people are backing only for the minis? Edit: Looks like very few, actually. That's surprising. As of this post only 24 of the 334 backers are at the minis only tier.
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Oct 30, 2023 21:03
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dwarf74 posted:The Monty Python rpg pdf dropped and uh it sure is something. I'm reasonably sure there's an rpg in here among the um... layout. I own some of the Monty Python books they published in the '70s. This is downright sedate, comparatively. I almost wish they'd gotten Terry Gilliam to do some creative input. 
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Oct 30, 2023 21:18
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senrath posted:How many people are backing only for the minis? I mean, right now it's pretty slim but I've bookmarked it to see if the mini tier gets enough added to it to be worthwhile, I imagine that ratio will increase if they manage to hit a bunch of stretch goals.
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The TMNT RPG reprint launched. Boy, it is something. $250k funding price, stretch goals set up suggesting they are expecting 2 million as a possibility, no PDF, and dice and miniatures that aren't shown even conceptually. This seems like a bit of a shitshow.
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Oct 31, 2023 18:59
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Ah Kevin, when will you learn. Still expect it to make a mil off of nostalgia and the license alone.
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EverettLO posted:The TMNT RPG reprint launched. Boy, it is something. $250k funding price, stretch goals set up suggesting they are expecting 2 million as a possibility, no PDF, and dice and miniatures that aren't shown even conceptually. I absolutely do not trust palladium to actually deliver anything except maybe the book. Been burned by them before.
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the page is so busy that it's barely loading, but it looks like it's already 2/3 of the way to funded at $185k. I would not be surprised at all if it goes over a million dollars. There's been recent films and TMNT is a popular franchise and it has Kevin Eastman's name involved. A ton of people who have only a vague idea of who palladium are and no idea who kevin is are gonna toss money at this thing. e. The pledged amount went up by $1700 while I was typing
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Oct 31, 2023 19:08
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I laughed when it claimed to use revised rules. No loving way you get that from Palladium.
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I was wary about that KS because of all I read about Palladium and as a huge TMNT fan I was willing to take a chance…but, no shipping to South America and no PDF option means I’m skipping this completely. What a waste of such cool IP
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NinjaDebugger posted:I absolutely do not trust palladium to actually deliver anything except maybe the book. Been burned by them before. Same. Got burned by them on Robotech RPG Tactics. That was before I knew better and now I know.
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It's over $250k now. I think this is a good example of how a publisher's reputation among long-time very online RPG nerds on some backwater forum isn't really representative of how a market will react when an extremely beloved and popular franchise gets attached to a vaporware product. I predict it will break $1M by Saturday. I'm further going to predict a final number around $2.5M.
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Azubah posted:I laughed when it claimed to use revised rules. It is probably the 'revised' version in that homosexuality isn't listed as a mental disorder.
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LionWing Games is putting out Eldritch Escape, a two player game heavily inspired by Souls games and Attack on Titan.
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Leperflesh posted:It's over $250k now. I think this is a good example of how a publisher's reputation among long-time very online RPG nerds on some backwater forum isn't really representative of how a market will react when an extremely beloved and popular franchise gets attached to a vaporware product. All the physical rewards would make the cautious person extremely wary. Even if it's not being run by Ninja Division who is like the miniatures version of Palladium when it comes to hitting deadlines.
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Oh god this feels like a 2015 kickstarter campaign except for the numbers. Yeah. If you are an experienced backer, the number of red flags here is staggering
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Variant covers? Variant covers! I was going to say "at least the artists are getting paid," but, well, Palladium. Hope the artists got paid in advance.
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Dawgstar posted:All the physical rewards would make the cautious person extremely wary. Even if it's not being run by Ninja Division who is like the miniatures version of Palladium when it comes to hitting deadlines. Like, I totally agree! But I think those things don't matter for determining how much money this offering will pull in. People who don't even play RPGs will buy it. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Oct 31, 2023 |
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I just want a PDF of it. That’s apparently too much (too little?) to ask.
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Yeah, they waited long enough since the last two KS disasters apparently. I think most people don't even remember that there was a Rifts board game KS between the poo poo show of Robotech stuff and now. Which crashed and burned because the guy running it was just some dimwit game store friend of Simbieda's with no experience at anything and he kept picking fights in the comments of his own KS. I think. It's been a while.
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Oct 31, 2023 23:29
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I'm a little surprised they limited the tchotchke selection to stuff you could theoretically use to play the game. This really has the feel of the vintage KSes that would throw in t-shirts and keychains and other random crap, you know?
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Oct 31, 2023 23:31
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Yeah, I have a full set of the old TMNT books and was gonna open-palm slam money for the collection, but the whole variant covers thing does make it look like a shitshow.
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On top of all the other stuff that allows regular offenders to slip by, Palladium has actually had a minor redemption with their Savage Worlds stuff. Even if none of the same people are involved other than Kevin, being only slightly plugged in or just more forgiving than your average handsome, savvy goon easily leads to "well they've been doing pretty decent lately."
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Robert Facepalmer posted:It is probably the 'revised' version in that homosexuality isn't listed as a mental disorder. Hahaha, gently caress I totally forgot about that. I mean, the original is sitting on my shelf and they literally coloured in the original art and relaunched the book. Amazing stuff.
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That Old Tree posted:On top of all the other stuff that allows regular offenders to slip by, Palladium has actually had a minor redemption with their Savage Worlds stuff. Even if none of the same people are involved other than Kevin, being only slightly plugged in or just more forgiving than your average handsome, savvy goon easily leads to "well they've been doing pretty decent lately." Right at the top… “Hi, everyone! My name is Sean Owen Roberson. I’m the Creative Director and business partner at Palladium Books.” He was behind Savage Rifts at Pinnacle and brought it and its follow on Kickstarters out with no issues despite Kevin S. having a say in it. He was subsequently involved in Palladium’s own Titan Robotics kickstarter, which also was fulfilled smoothly. I was certainly leery given Palladium’s long reputation, and how the Robotech tactics game turned out, but Roberson has been very reliable. Granted, with a multi billion dollar media company involved with TMNT, things might get more complicated… I suspect that’s why there’s no pictures of the minis yet, a long approval process is pretty typical for licensed tie-ins.
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Bumping this as there is only a week left and the author has managed to include a Roll20 Pledge tier that was not available when I first posted about it. I have worked on this as a freelance designer, punching up monster stats, items, etc. I'm not really getting any extra money based on pledges/sales, but I think there's some very nice art/maps/design and I would of course like to see people play something I have helped creating. 
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Leraika posted:LionWing Games is putting out Eldritch Escape, a two player game heavily inspired by Souls games and Attack on Titan. I know absolutely nothing about the TTRPG scene in Japan - is Takizato a designer you particularly like? This thing is a fascinating idea, but also 2 player combination co-op/competitive TTRPG is such a weird pitch that I would expect almost anyone taking a crack at it to produce something either unplayable or completely uninteresting after one session to puzzle out how it works.
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Robert Facepalmer posted:It is probably the 'revised' version in that homosexuality isn't listed as a mental disorder. Wait WHAT??
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Vintage Palladium books are just chock-full of bad decisions
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jivjov posted:Wait WHAT?? OG Palladium books, from the 80s and maybe into the early- or mid-90s I'm not sure, infamously included homosexuality as bad brains effect from being evil/insane. (Which ties into how it has a pretty wild alignment system to begin with, and still does even if being gay doesn't automatically equate to diabolic evil brains.) Honestly, I'm pretty surprised you're surprised with how often this comes up and how long you've been around these forums.
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Didn’t the contemporaneous DSM list homosexuality as a mental illness, or was that just for trans people by then?
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Subjunctive posted:Didn’t the contemporaneous DSM list homosexuality as a mental illness, or was that just for trans people by then? it did, yes, and that was the veil behind which publishers like Palladium hid
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There were quite a few books back then that had some heinous poo poo about homosexuality in them. The Central Casting series of books had homosexuality as an evil trait you could end up with.
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Irony.or.Death posted:I know absolutely nothing about the TTRPG scene in Japan - is Takizato a designer you particularly like? This thing is a fascinating idea, but also 2 player combination co-op/competitive TTRPG is such a weird pitch that I would expect almost anyone taking a crack at it to produce something either unplayable or completely uninteresting after one session to puzzle out how it works. I'm not familiar with his stuff in particular (though he's got a lot of accolades to his name) but 2p games have been of some interest to me for a while, as are games with automated combat and non-traditional gm roles, so it's caught my eye for those reasons (and full disclosure I've been a LionWing fan for a while; they do a really nice job bringing JTTRPGS over which is a relief after the Serpent Sea debacle).
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Leraika posted:the Serpent Sea debacle Oh man, I had to google just to remember what that was about (and they’ve been SEO’s into near oblivion thanks to a D&D5 adventure by Modiphius). And I backed Kamigakari! (and still haven’t read it) Last update was in May. Man, you know a project is considered dead and buried when irate backers gave up on yelling in the comments a year ago.
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Parkreiner posted:Oh man, I had to google just to remember what that was about (and they’ve been SEO’s into near oblivion thanks to a D&D5 adventure by Modiphius). And I backed Kamigakari! It's still wild that I have an unbroken streak of KSes that eventually deliver what I backed them for and Kamigakari is one of them. Trying to chase that high I found with Double Cross.
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Parkreiner posted:Oh man, I had to google just to remember what that was about (and they’ve been SEO’s into near oblivion thanks to a D&D5 adventure by Modiphius). And I backed Kamigakari! At least the core game came out and I'm pretty sure the fan translations for the other book mechanics are, y'know, out there. kamigakari is pretty cool, though.
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Leraika posted:I'm not familiar with his stuff in particular (though he's got a lot of accolades to his name) but 2p games have been of some interest to me for a while, as are games with automated combat and non-traditional gm roles, so it's caught my eye for those reasons (and full disclosure I've been a LionWing fan for a while; they do a really nice job bringing JTTRPGS over which is a relief after the Serpent Sea debacle). I've been very impressed with the Picaresque Roman and other LionWing kickstarters. Professional and efficient in my experience. https://www.level99store.com/blogs/news/we-re-not-running-any-ads-for-bullet-universe Level 99 made a post about how they're not doing ads for the Bullet expansion kickstarter. They decided to use that budget for commissioning more art instead. Seems like a cool call to me.
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Sionak posted:https://www.level99store.com/blogs/news/we-re-not-running-any-ads-for-bullet-universe All that aside, I'm definitely excited to hear about more content for Bullet. I only have the base game (<3 edition) and it's been a great time every time we play. Hopefully they'll have a way to pick up the wooden tokens because the dinky cardboard ones are kind of bumming me out. edit: reread the announcement, they say that "[some of the art] may eventually find themselves in artbooks, promos, or other merchandise." So they might use it in the future, but none of it is directly going in the expansions, it seems.
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